Tuesday, April 21, 2015

A Hero Never Dies A New Layout And A Message

In spite of all my best intentions, it's clear I've been neglecting this blog for a long time. The odd post here and there is not what I had in mind when starting up back in November 2010. Much has happened since then and I have plenty of good reasons for the decline in activity (which I won't bore you with) , and one not so good one, which is that I've become a very lazy blogger. I have so much I want to do and so little time in which to do it, but I do intend to ramp up my rate of posting to at least two per month!

I do have lots of good stuff to share, so please don't give up on A Hero Never Dies just yet.

Thank you fellas, and yes Rob, so many of the blogs that were around when I started have been left to rot, I know Im not the only one for whom keeping focus to regularly produce updates is hard work. I'm determined though, facebook et al are fine for some things, but I still prefer to read a good blog post.

About Me

I discovered Hong Kong cinema over 20 years ago when Channel 4 showed a series of Hong Kong ghost stories which included screenings of Rouge and Encounters of the spooky kind. I watched them all and wanted more,next up was Jonathan Ross' Incredibly strange film show on Tsui Hark where they showed a clip of Chow Yun Fat hiding guns in plant pots from A better tomorrow and the shootout that follows. My mind was blown there and then but the thing that made me a fan forever more was seeing a trailer on a palace video release for The killer. Ever since I have been watching and spending far too much money on HK related goodies (and the kit to watch them on). The blog is somewhere to put my thoughts on my HK passion, a passion that refuses to die even though HK cinema is struggling at the moment.